Selected Awards
A concise selection of research, open-source, and competition recognition.
Research & Open Source
- Google Gemini Academic Award (2026)
- Google Open Source Peer Bonus for the GCViT and TransUNet TensorFlow projects (2023)
- Kaggle ML Research Spotlight for the Global Context Vision Transformer implementation and technical walkthrough (2022)
- Google Open Source Expert Prizes for work on fake-speech detection, medical-image segmentation, and extraterrestrial-signal detection (2022)
Selected Competitions
- IEEE VIP Cup at ICIP — top result on Test 1 for generalizable synthetic-image detection; this work became the ArtiFact benchmark (2022)
- IEEE Signal Processing Cup at ICASSP — first-place result for attributing synthetic speech to known and unknown generation methods (2022)
- Deep Chimpact, DrivenData — first-place solution for monocular depth estimation in wildlife-conservation videos (2021)
- SIIM–FISABIO–RSNA COVID-19 Detection, Kaggle — best student team and fourth place overall (2021)
Kaggle
I am a Kaggle Grandmaster with a best Code-category rank of 5th among 61,000+ competitors. I have earned 48 gold and 14 silver Code medals, as well as one gold and three silver Competition medals.